Sharpening is one of the hardest post-processing steps to understand for many photographers. There are several pitfalls and obstacles to overcome in order to take your sharpening skills to a professional level. When should you sharpen, to get the best result? How does the output media affect the sharpening process? Is there any room for creativity, when sharpening? Should I sharpen before resizing the image, and so on? There are many questions that need to be answered before you can take your sharpening skills to a new level. In this post, you will get my suggestions on when to sharpen

It is now possible to get the popular Affinity Photo Macros together with my new Affinity Photo Workflow Video Course. When you buy these together, you automatically get a 20% discount, compared to buying them separately. So if you seek to get the most out of Affinity Photo, you should check out the Affinity Photo Macro and Video Bundle. Affinity Photo Macros for Photographers will take the workload off processing your images in Affinity Photo. If you are unsure, what macros are, they are equal to actions are in Photoshop. Macros can speed up your workflow and give you great

Note: You can find a free histogram cheat sheet at the bottom of this article, but you can also download the histogram cheat sheet as a PDF for future reference here: Download a PDF with the Histogram Cheat Sheet + a FREE e-book: 25 Techniques All Photographers Should Master
Use The Histogram And Avoid Coming Home With Badly Exposed Photos
It took a long time before I understood how to use the strange multicolored Everest like peaks that my camera displayed on the rear LCD screen. My first idea was how do I turn this damn histogram display off, but then again I decided to give it a

A lot of photographers want to have a powerful photo editor, but also don't want to be tied up with an expensive subscription plan, that comes with Photoshop. For this Affinity Photo is a great choice, as it comes with but a low price tag, but with the flexibility and power that Photoshop is famous for. However, taken on a powerful photo editing application like Affinity Photo, can be a bit daunting for some. Therefore I have created a video course with training material for those who are just starting out with Affinity Photo or those who think about getting a more professional

Great news for those of us who love to use Nik Collection as part of a professional photo editing workflow. In December DxO acquired the Nik Collection software from Google and now they have launched an update. It is mainly bug fixes and an update to ensure that it is compatible with the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and Photoshop Elements. With the update, you will also get support if needed to get the plugins to work. This is something that has been missing for the last year or two since Google decided to stop developing and updating the plugins. With a new life to

Taking on a powerful photo editing app like Affinity Photo can be quite a handful, especially when you open Affinity Photo for the first time. Even though you might have used it for some time, there might still be doubt or confusion about certain features. If you still haven't downloaded Affinity Photo, you can do it here.
Use These 14 Affinity Photo Tips To Get Started
In this article, you will get 14 quick tips on how to get started with Affinity Photo. Hopefully, this will help you get a grip on some of the features or concepts in the Affinity Photo. There is of course more to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrouJYVOvuEIn the video above, I will show you how you can add contrast to your images in different ways using Affinity Photo, right from a simple contrast adjustment to a more professional way of adding contrast to your images. You can also use the method if you are using Photoshop, with just a little modification.We will be using an image that I captured on my trip to New Zealand. I captured it a little downstream from McClean’s Fall in the Catlins Conservation Park.As usual, when you capture images in Raw-format, they come out a bit flat. So, I want to

Using layer masks in Affinity Photo is a powerful way to combine parts of several images into a single image or to limit the effect of adjustment layers and filters to only affect part of your image. Layer masks are nondestructive. This means that you can modify them at any stage of your post-processing workflow. (more…)

I just wanted to let you know that I have updated my welcome newsletter for new subscribers on my mailing list to also include 5 free Luminar presets besides the other things you get in the welcome email. This means that you as a subscriber to my newsletter not only get 70 free Lightroom Presets and a free e-book called 8 tools for photographers. You now also get 5 free Luminar presets to use in Luminar by Macphun. By the way, the free e-book is an excerpt from my e-book The Photographer's Toolbox, which you can get at the store. The welcome package is really getting more and more

Do you want to create black and white photos that have more impact? And do you want to do this by using only Lightroom to convert your photos to black and white? In this black and white Lightroom tutorial, you will learn to do just that. You will learn which sliders to adjust to create a black and white photo which leaves an impression on everybody who sees it. (more…)

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